The Rising Tide
Scientists now agree that recent flooding events in Louisiana are due to global warming.
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Clinton and the Carbon Tax
The Democratic Party Platform endorsed a carbon tax, but Hillary Clinton did not. Alexander Posner tells us why.
Thanks, But No Thanks: Shirking Responsibility at COP21
In a move not wholly unexpected of the U.S., select countries received a note detailing American expectations from the Paris agreement at COP21. It didn’t go over well.
Republicans Challenge Obama on Climate Change Ahead of UN Conference
With the GOP opposing Obama’s Clean Power Plan and questioning his authority to negotiate a long-term climate agreement, the president faces an uphill battle.
Finding Refuge As the Tides Rise : The Climate Migration Crisis
In May of 2014, Ioane Teitiota, a 38 year old man from the small island nation of Kiribati, made the world’s first climate changerelated refugee appeal. Overnight, Kiribati became the face o of climate change migration. Surrounded on all sides by the…
‘Capitalism and the Climate Change Crisis’: Envisioning a New Society at Yale
According to Professor Fred Magdoff, former chair of the plant and soil science department at the University of Vermont, capitalism stifles the “cooperation, sharing, empathy, and altruism” we need to fight climate change.
Facing the Blaze: Climate Change and Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest
In the coming decades, climate change can be expected to produce more intense wildfires, like those seen this summer in the Pacific Northwest.
Autocracy in the Atolls
Given the pervasive threat of rising sea levels, the assault on democracy in the Maldives is the last thing the low-lying island nation needs.